Re: EPICS alarm handler server?

[Matthias Clausen <Matthias.Clausen@desy.de>]

Hi Matthew,

Pearson, MR (Matthew) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At DLS we're thinking about deploying alarm handling software on the
> beamlines. At this stage the only requirements we have are logging and
> notification (via e-mail for example).
>
> The aim is to set up the software as a daemon on the beamline server
> machines, not the control cabin user machines. Running the standard
> EPICS alarm handler is proving a little inconvenient on these machines,
> as it involves running an X server and VNC server.
>
> For the users we still plan to run the standard alarm handler as a
> passive client, so that they can visually see the current state of
> beamline alarms (using the same ALH configuration file).
>
> For the alarm handler server side, does anyone have any solution that we
> can look at?
>
> We're running EPICS 3.14.8.2, so I think we can't take advantage of the
> alarm pushing IOCs talked about at the DESY 2007 workshop.
>   
Well - looking at the documentation - you're right.
The functionality is much better: We are running sendAlarms on the IOC 
now on 12 IOC's in production.
Three interConnectionServers run in redundant mode sending alarm 
messages to two redundant ActiveMQ JMS servers.
An alarm-tree and alarm tables run in CSS.
This covers the View part...

The Alarm Management System is generating SMS messages as well as 
sending e-mail.
This covers the active part...

Most of it was described during the EPICS meeting at DESY.

Some info on the IOC part is here: (very basic)
http://css.desy.de/content/e428/e1643/e1706/index_eng.html

btw:
Helena Pruchova also looks for the same kind of solution.
Maybe she found an easy one?

-Matthias
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew Pearson
>
>
>
> Dr Matthew Pearson
> Software Systems Engineer
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